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Bill: Cannabis (Medical Use) Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Fenner Brockway Socialist Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: June 2114
Description[?]:
| A bill to legalize the use of cannabis for medical purposes in cases where it has been prescribed by a doctor. The cannabis is to be used only as directed by the doctor and in line with best medical practice and reasonable safeguards. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The use of cannabis for medicinal purposes.
Old value:: The medicinal use of cannabis is illegal.
Current: Cannabis is legal as a sedative for patients in pain.
Proposed: Cannabis is legal as a sedative for patients in pain.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:14:03, September 19, 2005 CET | From | Novy Smer Party | To | Debating the Cannabis (Medical Use) Act |
| Message | No. We can not support this bill. We agree that research in to the use of cannabinoids in the development of new, safe analgesics is vital, but the idea of using cannabis itself in medicine is horrific! cannabis is a dangerous, impure product which causes damage to the autonomic nervous system, causes schizophrenia and other psychoses and recent research suggests it actually causes structural changes to the brain. What a terribly irresponsible proposal!!!! |
| Date | 23:18:18, September 19, 2005 CET | From | Fenner Brockway Socialist Party | To | Debating the Cannabis (Medical Use) Act |
| Message | The bill makes clear that cannabis will be used only with the agreement of a doctor and in line with best medical practice. If best medical practice is that it will be used as a component part of an analgesic rather than in a pure form, then of course that is precisely what will happen. |
| Date | 02:09:29, September 20, 2005 CET | From | Novy Smer Party | To | Debating the Cannabis (Medical Use) Act |
| Message | There is currently no pharmaceutical form of cannabinoids extracted and standardised from the natural product. Therefore no such use in safe analgesia is possible. Before any such extract can be isolated and converted to an appropriate dosage form we first need to identify exactly which chemicals contained in cannabis have which effects. We are still some way from this point and even when we do get there we need full toxicology and clinical trials of an appropriate dosage form before we can approve use in medicine. Remember, Doctors only prescribe the drugs which they are advised to prescribe. Until much more research is done we must continue to say "NO". |
| Date | 02:39:51, September 20, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party | To | Debating the Cannabis (Medical Use) Act |
| Message | We've proposed this ourselves before and we'll wholeheartedly support this bill in the Grand Council. |
| Date | 19:09:04, September 20, 2005 CET | From | Fenner Brockway Socialist Party | To | Debating the Cannabis (Medical Use) Act |
| Message | This proposal gives doctors the right to prescribe cannabis, in an appropriate quantity and to be taken in an appropriate way, in line with appropriate medical advice. They will, of course, be under an obligation to weigh up the risks versus the benefits, as they would with any other medical treatment. |
| Date | 20:33:31, September 20, 2005 CET | From |  Ducal Delegation | To | Debating the Cannabis (Medical Use) Act |
| Message | The Grand Duke finds cannabis extremely relaxing and believes it has contributed towards making him the well-balanced and responsible citizen of Aldegarian society that he is. Percy Waterman (Personal Secretary to the Grand Duke of Hikirena) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 108 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 177 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 36 |
| Random fact: Don't vote yes on a cabinet coalition that doesn't give you the power that you deserve. |
| Random quote: "I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church." - Thomas Paine |